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A MEDITATION ON THE THREE THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Goddess, by threefold ceremonies adored
Last Line: To dwell where wholly thou and thine are his.
Subject(s): Meditation; Religion; Theology


GODDESS, by threefold ceremonies adored:
On bloody altars in the infernal ways
Where sad ghosts walk, and many a lost life strays
Darkly, and all-but-hopeless Death is lord;
And in the upper world,—where, long implored,
Oracular prophecy no more delays
To cheer thy faithful worshippers,—with praise
Of song and broken cake and wine outpoured:

Thou in the last and holiest mysteries
And in thy heavenly session hast no name,
Title or rites, but only his who draws
All souls in thee, O motion of his laws,
From worlds of daylight or of Stygian shame
To dwell where wholly thou and thine are his.





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